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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 1670
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Partly because there the body of our Lord Jesus Christ is a glorified body; the very body of Christ is made more spiritual and shining than the Angelical nature; I had almost said, the very flesh of Christ transubstantiated into the divine nature, it is so diaphanous and transparent, that it is nothing else, as it were, but a veil, through which the Saints may look upon the face of God more steadily; surely that sight of Christ will be God manifest in the flesh indeed, the invisible God made visible ⟨p. 25⟩in the humane nature; that will be a most beatifical Object!
1. Partly because there the body of our Lord Jesus Christ is a glorified body; the very body of Christ is made more spiritual and shining than the Angelical nature; I had almost said, the very flesh of Christ transubstantiated into the divine nature, it is so diaphanous and transparent, that it is nothing else, as it were, but a vail, through which the Saints may look upon the face of God more steadily; surely that sight of Christ will be God manifest in the flesh indeed, the invisible God made visible ⟨p. 25⟩in the humane nature; that will be a most beatifical Object!
2. And partly because the organ or faculty in the Saints shall be glorified also, the eye of sense in them shall be raised to a wonderful degree of quickness and activity, able to receive in this glorious object clearly and fully. Here the world saw no beauty in Christ, not because Christ wanted beauty, but because they wanted eyes, yea, the godly themselves, their eyes were held, that they could not perfectly discern his glory; but oh now, when the object shall be perfected, and the organ perfected to receive it, what a blissful vision will the very Man Christ Jesus be in glory?
2. And partly because the organ or faculty in the Saints shall be glorified also, the eye of sence in them shall be raised to a wonderful degree of quickness and activity, able to receive in this glorious object clearly and fully. Here the world saw no beauty in Christ, not because Christ wanted beauty, but because they wanted eyes, yea, the godly themselves, their eyes were held, that they could not perfectly discern his glory; but oh now, when the object shall be perfected, and the organ perfected to receive it, what a blissful vision will the very Man Christ Jesus be in glory?